Button.



A. FULLER.

, BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1908.

1,093,10 .v Patentd May 26, 191i 7 WITNESSES: INVENTOfi Mm. ww

ATTOR/VEVJ? ALBERT FULLER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, IO FRANZ A. FULLER, 0F NEXT/ARK, NEW JERSEY.

BUTTON.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT FULLER, a citizenof the United States, residing in the city of Newark, county of Essex,and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled 1n the art to which it appertains to make, construct, anduse the same.

My invention relates to improvements in shirt studs or collar buttons,which may be readily inserted in the holes of a garment, and its objectis to reduce the entire number of necessary parts and the consequentcost of the same to a minimum.

The invention consists of a button comprising a base plate provided withupwardly extending spring members and a shank adapted to rotate betweensaid spring members.

In carrying out my invention, I make use of the structure illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of myimproved button. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a verticalsection of the same. Fig. 4 is a front view of the shank or stem of myimproved button. Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on line -00 of Fig. 4;Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank to be used in a modified form of myimproved button and; Fig. 7 is a sectional plan view taken on line 00-00of Fig. 1, showing. the action of the stem of the button head with thespring members.

Similar letters of reference refer to like parts throughout thespecification and drawings.

The improved button consists essentially of the base plate a having theordinary or any other desired form, to which are secured in any suitablemanner, preferably by spinning, the upwardly extending spring memhere 6and Z2. These spring members 7) and Z) are formed of one piece of anysuitable material, preferably blanked out of metal and provided with arectangular bend as at c, and provided with upper and lower semibearings(Z and 6, so that when the two memhere 6 and b are secured to the baseplate in the manner aforesaid, suitable bearings are presented for theshank to rotate there- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 24, 1908.

Patented May 26, islet.

Serial No. 445,119.

between. The shank or stem 7 is adapted to rotate in said bearings, andprovided with a button head g, preferably made of an elongatedconformation providing greater length in proportion to its thickness orwidth but, it may also be made of any other varying contour and surfacedesign. The

form of head adapts it to be easily and quickly pushed through thebutton holes of a shirt or collar, and when the said head is turned inits looking or holding engagement with the collar or shirt, preventsabsolutely any accidental displacement of the button.

Suitably formed upon the shank or stem f of the button head at a pointcorresponding to the upper bearing of the spring members Z) and b, is asquare portion h which has engagement with and is adapted to rotate insaid bearing. The inner portion of said bearing has a correspondingsquare contour which contour conforms to the square portion 71. of theshank To prevent the upward displacement of the shank f of the buttonhead from its operative relation with the lower bearing e of the springmembers I) and b, there is formed a stem 6, said stem 71 being preventedfrom becoming disengaged from the hearing by providing the lower endwith an upset or turned over end portion 71, whereby the parts areconnected, and preventing the shank f from being withdrawn from thebearing 6.

The blank shown in Fig. 6 of the drawings, which is to be used in themodified form of my improved button, consists essentially of the centralportion j, and the two side pieces is and is, which are connected to thecentral portion 7' by means of the tongues Z. This blank when formed upin the manner hereafter described, constitutes a base plate with thespring members formed integral with said base plate. The side pieces 73and 7c are bent where indicated by the dotted lines, at right-angles tothe semi-circular portions n and a, and the semi-circular portions n andn are thereafter bent down on to the central portion j and the edge ofthe central portion 7' isthen spun over as illustrated in Fig. 3. Theunder side of the base plate a is then covered with any suitablematerial, such as transparent celluloid or the like.

While I have described herein the preferred embodiment of my invention,it will be understood that various changes may be made therein withoutdeparting from the scope of the claim.

I claim:

A button or stud, comprising a base plate made from a single piece ofsuitable material, consisting of a central portion and two side piecesintegrally connected to said central portion by means of tongues, saidside pieces being bent back upon the central portion and extendingupwardly at rightangles to said base to form centrally-arranged integralspring members, the edge of the central portion of the base beingsecured to said side pieces by spinning said edge over the bent backportions of the side pieces, square upper and cylindrical lower spacedbearings formed integrally in said spring members,

and a shank made from a single piece of suitable material provided witha square-portion, corresponding to the square upper bearing formed inthe spring members, adapted to rotate between the square upper bearingof the spring members, and a reduced circular portion adapted to rotatebetween the cylindrical lower bearing of the spring members, said shankbeing provided at its upper end with a button head and at its lower endwith means to prevent the shank from being withdrawn from said springmembers.

This specification signed and witnessed this 17th day of July 1908.

ALBERT FULLER.

Witnesses FREDIL C. FISCHER,

LOUIS M. SANDERS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

